During several of our recent online events, I was asked if there was a multi-device spell checking and RTF component solution for FireMonkey. The answer is, yes there is. Spell Checking components are available from TMS Software both for Windows VCL and multi-device FireMonkey apps. Bruno Fierens (TMS Software) showed the spell checker components working in apps during his Technology Partner Spotlight webinar in February. Here are a few links to the spotlight replay and also to the TMS spell checking product pages.

It’s that time for me to buy some new WiFi enabled devices. I’ve been playing with medical/fitness gadgets for too long: heart rate monitors, oximeters, blood pressure cuffs and blood sugar monitors. It’s time to move into the kitchen. Here are two WiFi enabled kitchen devices that I have to purchase and start some programming with RAD Studio XE7: "Crock-Pot Smart Wifi-Enabled WeMo 6-Quart Slow Cooker" and "Mr. Coffee Smart Wifi-Enabled WeMo 10-Cup Optimal Brew Coffeemaker".

Embarcadero Community Webcast – Episode #6

Monday Februray 9, 2015

A weekly Embarcadero Community webcast, by David Intersimone "David I", covering recent Embarcadero and Industry news, upcoming events, blog posts, articles and Community Questions and Answers. The recording appears on the Embarcadero YouTube channel.

Next week, February 9-13, we are celebrating everything Delphi during our first annual #DelphiWeek. Each day, we will have live sessions from 8am to 10am and 2pm to 4pm Pacific Time. This is my personal invitation for you to take part in this global celebration of 20 years of continuous innovation (with much more to come).

Additional information about the Delphi Week 2015 schedule of events is available on the Community Site News page at

If you register and participate in the live, online daily events taking place each day from 8- 10am and 2-4pm Pacific Time, let us know which days you will be on so we can find you in the attendee list and open up your mic (if you raise your hand) and we can have a conversation/interview during the live events.

Send us an email and tell us the cool things you are doing using Delphi. If you have blog posts, videos or articles that talk about what you are building, send us the URL.

Upload a picture of your yourself, your office, your team, your IDE/Applications screens to Twitter and Instagram and use the hashtag #DelphiWeek so we can find the bitmap and add it to our Delphi photo album.

If you are up to the challenge, take part in the Wednesday "Code Battle" where developers will build an application using Delphi XE7 features live online. Community members will then vote to decide the winners.

Embarcadero Community Webcast – Episode #5

Monday Februray 2, 2015

A weekly Embarcadero Community webcast, by David Intersimone "David I", covering recent Embarcadero and Industry news, upcoming events, blog posts, articles and Community Questions and Answers. The recording appears on the Embarcadero YouTube channel.

Embarcadero Community Webcast – Episode #5

Monday Februray 2, 2015

A weekly Embarcadero Community webcast, by David Intersimone "David I", covering recent Embarcadero and Industry news, upcoming events, blog posts, articles and Community Questions and Answers. The recording appears on the Embarcadero YouTube channel.

UI development has changed significantly over the years with new devices and form factors being introduced every day. From phones, desktops, tablets, mini-tablets, wearables, Google Glass and more, developers are faced with creating unique UIs that fit each form factor and native device style.

The revolutionary FireUI designer allows you to create custom and unique UI and UX for each device platform and form factor in a single codebase. FireUI allows you to share one master form and device view across multiple UIs. The webinar shows you how to change the design paradigm in today’s multi-device world.

Here are the slides and resource links used in today’s FireUI webinar. I will update this blog post with the link to the final projects source code.

RAD in Action: FireUI - Slides on SlideShare

I have uploaded the slides for today’s webinar to my SlideShare account.

Embarcadero Community Webcast – Episode #4

Monday January 26, 2015

A weekly Embarcadero Community webcast, by David Intersimone "David I", covering recent Embarcadero and Industry news, upcoming events, blog posts, articles and Community Questions and Answers. The recording appears on the Embarcadero YouTube channel.

Developer Skill Sprints - every Tuesday at 6am, 11am and 5pm Pacific Time

It’s the new year and time for more Developer Skill Sprints! Join us for this 10-part series exploring some of the newest features of RAD Studio, Delphi and C++Builder XE7. We’ll show you how to use the new revolutionary FireUI multi-device designer, utilize multi-core CPUs with the all new Parallel Programming Library, explore InterBase XE7 change views and much more!

FireDAC Skill Sprints - every Thursday at 6am, 11am and 5pm Pacific Time

It’s time to make database development fun again! Join us for this special track of Developer Skill Sprints focused on using FireDAC for database development. FireDAC is the Universal Data Access library for developing applications for multiple devices, connected to enterprise databases. In these special sessions, we’ll take you from a beginner to an expert by showing you how to utilize FireDAC in multiple situations.

Embarcadero Technology Partner Spotlights - every Friday at 6am and 11am Pacific Time

The availability of a wide range of third party components, plugins, libraries and tools for RAD Studio and Appmethod provide a huge productivity advantage for developers who are required to build business critical applications.

Embarcadero Technology Partners are developers and organizations who develop and sell tools, components and libraries that add value to the Embarcadero family of developer products, and who actively market their products through trade advertising and the World Wide Web. The Embarcadero Technology Partner ecosystem is made up of hundreds of companies who provide thousands of ready-built add-ons to facilitate multi-device development.

You’re invited to join our new “Embarcadero Technology Partner Spotlight” series of webinars each Friday for 20-minute online presentations and demonstrations followed by live Q&A with the best tool and component companies on the planet.